Box-tray carrier for match-packing machines.



'.lVl. PARIDON.

Box TRAY CARRIER FoR MATCH PACKlNG MACHINES.

APPLICATION FILED MAY I7, 1915.

Patented J m1. 18, 1916.

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v Specification of Letters Patent.

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Application led May 17, 1915. SeraINo. 28,559.

To all w/wm t mag/,camera Be it known'that I, kMICHAEL' PARInON, ak

citizen of the United States, and resident of,

the city and county of Oswego and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in BOX-Tray Carriers for Match-Packing Machines, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to boX-tray carriers for match packing machines, and more especially tO carriers of the character illus trated in Letters Patent of the United States No. 1,016,436 dated February 6, 1912, wherein tray-holders are mounted for independent vertical movement on the links of an endless chain. Such links comprise a contini'ious series of horizontally-disposed plate me1nbers provided at their adjacentedges with hingedly-connected lugs, and provided along their undersides with gear teeth with which` mesh appropriate actuating gear wheels. Each of the plate members has formed thereon a pair of spaced upstanding verticallyperforated posts which afford guides for the Correspondinglyspaced depending` pins of a vertically-movable tray holder. |The carrier travels in a horizontaly path and intermittently advances the tray-holders, with their contained match box trays, tothe source of match supply.` In the operation of the patented machine the matches are apt toy fall upon the linked plates and eventually be-A come massed thereon beneath the trayholder, thus not only interfering with the eflicient vertical movement of the trayholder and the flexing of the carrier, but also increasing the fire risk.

rlhe object of my invention is to provide links of suoli construction that the accidental lodgment of matches `thereon will be avoided, and-to this end I erect a partition wall between the perforated guide posts of each of the links and fashion the front and rearward edges of the link with recessed portions so disposed in relation to the partition wall that the matches which accidentally fall upon the link beneath the holder are unbalanced on and tipped from the link, as will be hereinafter described and cl aimed.

In the drawings- Figure 1 is a vplan of a portion of a. tray carrier embodying my -invention; a party of the supporting bed being indicated, andtwo of the tray-holders being shown as supplied with filled box trays. Fig. 2 is a perspective View of one of the links of the carrier. F ig. 3 is an end View, partly in i section, of the link with its associated trayholder.

Referring to the drawings, 10 designates a part of the horizontal bed or table upon which the endless tray carrier is seated and guided.

11 designates the plates or bodies of the links; 12 the hingedly connected proj ectio-ns thereof; 13 the rack teeth on the bottom of the plates; and 14 the upstanding perforated guide posts arranged in pairs on the respective plates.

15 designates the tray holders comprising side walled plates having depending pins 16 which are slidingly fitted in the perforated posts of the respective links.

According to my invention I provide each of the link plates with a transverse partition wall 17 which extends between and rises to or near to the top of the posts, and I shape the front and back edges of the plate inwardly adjacent the sides of the respective hinge projections to provide recesses 18 which materially reduce the area of the plate surface presented to the matches that may accidentally fall from the trays and enter the space beneath the plate and the holder,

being tipped olf from the link body and the I other as prevented from lying flat on such body by the opposingpartition wall, so that the vibration of the carrier, in its travel, will cause the latter match to slide or Overbalance. Should a match fall fiat on the reduced body of the link the vibration of the carrier will unbalance and discharge the match.

rIhe construction above described is eX- ceedingly simple and eiiicient. Although it reduces the area of the link plate surface and the weight of the link, it does not detract from the strength of the latter nor impair the flexibility of the carrier.

I claiml A match-boX-tray-carrier of the characte described comprising a series of hingedlymovable tray holders thereon, said links each lincluding a plate having hinge connections at itsffront and back portions, and having spaced upstanding guide posts and a transverse partition wall between the posts, 'the' front and back edges of the plate being re-A cessed inwardly adjacent the sides of' the revspective'hnge connections, and the space 10 remaining between the partition wall and Copies of this: patent may be obtained for ve cents eachQby addressing the Commissioner of Patents, v

'said inward recessesy being less than the length oi a match for the purpose described, and they saidtray holders eaehooinprising a meinber having spaced depending pins slid ingly fitted tol the guide posts,y

Signed at the city and'connty of Oswego,

fand State of New York this 14th day oilvlay A.D.1915. y. s* j MICHAEL PARinoN. 

